| Corporatist Ideology in Kemalist Turkey: Progress or Order? Contributor(s): Parla, Taha (Author), Davison, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 0815630549 ISBN-13: 9780815630548 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2004 Annotation: This book provides an informed analysis of the ideological content of Kemalism--the name given to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's party's political thought and practice--and the persistently official and semi-official, hegemonic ideology of the Turkish Republic, formally founded in 1923. Through a textual and contextual analysis of Kemalism in Ataturk's speeches and the official documents of the ruling Republican People's Party, Taha Parla and Andrew Davison offer fresh interpretations of the political, economic, social, and cultural goals of the Kemalist version of Turkish nationalism. They also provide an astute analysis of the power and authority that Ataturk and his colleagues believed were necessary to achieve their implementation, and of the institutions created in that process. Kemalism as a democratizing and secularizing framework for modern governance is debated by illuminating Kemalism's emphatic and self-conscious, corporatist ideological core. The authors show how Kemalism's conceptions of society, national identity, the relationship between the state and Islam, and other fundamental political dynamics require a rethinking of its democratic, secular, and modernist reputation, and its prospects for, and barriers to, a more democratic Turkey within the Kemalist legacy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - General |
| Dewey: 322.309 |
| LCCN: 2004017122 |
| Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East |
| Physical Information: 1.07" H x 6.48" W x 9.4" (1.34 lbs) 332 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book provides an informed analysis of the ideological content of Kemalismthe name given to Mustafa Kemal Atat rk's party's political thought and practiceand the persistently official and semi-official, hegemonic ideology of the Turkish Republic, formally founded in 1923. Through a textual and contextual analysis of Kemalism in Atat rk's speeches and the official documents of the ruling Republican People's Party, Taha Parla and Andrew Davison offer fresh interpretations of the political, economic, social, and cultural goals of the Kemalist version of Turkish nationalism. They also provide an astute analysis of the power and authority that Atat rk and his colleagues believed were necessary to achieve their implementation, and of the institutions created in that process. Kemalism as a democratizing and secularizing framework for modern governance is debated by illuminating Kemalism's emphatic and self-conscious, corporatist ideological core. The authors show how Kemalism's conceptions of society, national identity, the relationship between the state and Islam, and other fundamental political dynamics require a rethinking of its democratic, secular, and modernist reputation, and its prospects for, and barriers to, a more democratic Turkey within the Kemalist legacy. |